This morning, I was trying to use up one of my many creams before they dry up. My Nancy Boy Replenishing cream just wasn't lathering well or lasting. I know it's a latherless cream, but it wasn't giving any cushioning, because it was drying up.

So I grabbed a random tube of shave cream and lathered up probably the best and quickest lather I've ever made. The shave cream was Erasmic. The key ingredients are chamomile and glycerin.

I have used glycerin soaps occasionally and gotten good results, but never as good as Erasmic. A nice thick cushion of shiny, rich, slick lather that made for a comfortable finish for my shave this morning. I got the lather going by face lathering in a manner of seconds. After rinsing my face, my face felt moisturized and sleek. I'm amazed.

I am a fan of Erasmic, too. I have only used the old formula (red top) and don't have much of it left, unfortunately. I like the stick, too. I believe they messed with the stick formula and then reverted to the tallow version, but I'm not sure. Mine is the tallow version, and to me it has a faint trace of tobacco, unlike Tabac, which doesn't smell in the least like tobacco. I rate the Erasmic stick quite highly, actually; it produces a very creamy, thick cushiony lather and sets up a good satisfying shave. The only tallow stick I am not sure about is the Wilkinson Sword. It smells, umm, soapy and the blue colour, hmmm, not sure about it really.